With «Lightsome», the Neues Museum Nürnberg dedicates the first comprehensive museum show to Keith Sonnier, a pioneering figure in the fields of conceptual art, post-minimal, video and performance of the late 1960s, after his passing in 2020.

Born in Grand Mamou, Louisiana in 1941, Sonnier was one of the first artists to incorporate light into sculpture: an innovation that forms the foundation of his subsequent work. Since the late 1960s, Sonnier has continued to forge a sculptural language that defies easy categorization. From his earliest investigations of fleeting and unstable materials like lint, latex and neon, to his later expressions of the way architecture, light and form come together to shape human experience, communication and interconnection, Sonnier’s art has radically reframed sculpture’s role and function.